[Testing Update] 2026-01-18 - Kernels, Python 3.14, KDE Frameworks, Plasma, GNOME, GRUB

Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.

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NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal support

With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older.

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to a legacy driver to maintain support:

  • Install the official linuxXXX-nvidia-575xx, linuxXXX-nvidia-570xx, or related DKMS packages.
  • Manjaro 26.0 Anh-Linh released
  • Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available
  • As of Linux 5.4.302, the 5.4 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 5.10 LTS (Long Term Support) or 5.15 LTS.
  • As of Linux 6.16.12, the 6.16 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).
  • As of Linux 6.17.13, the 6.17 series is now EOL (End Of Life). Please install 6.18 stable and/or 6.12 LTS (Long Term Support).
Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

2025-04-17 - Andrew Crerar

Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore, will be replacing redis in the [extra] repository. This change is due to Redis modifying its license from BSD-3-Clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 on March 20th, 2024.

Arch Linux Package Maintainers intend to support the availability of the redis package for roughly 14 days from the day of this post, to enable a smooth transition to valkey. After the 14 day transition period has ended, the redis package will be moved to the AUR. Also, from this point forward, the redis package will not receive any additional updates and should be considered deprecated until it is removed.

Users are recommended to begin transitioning their use of Redis to Valkey as soon as possible to avoid possible complications after the 14 day transition window closes.

Arch Linux - News: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

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Python 3.14 info

:information_source: You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.13.so.

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.13/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.13/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.13)

Use rebuild-detector to see if anything else needs to be rebuilt:

 checkrebuild

* It’s recommended to clean your build cache first with pamac clean --build-files

Info about AUR packages

:warning: AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcements topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.

For help with AUR packages, please create a new topic in Support > AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.


Our current supported kernels

  • linux510 5.10.247
  • linux515 5.15.197
  • linux61 6.1.161
  • linux66 6.6.121
  • linux612 6.12.66
  • linux618 6.18.6
  • linux619 6.19.0-rc5
  • linux61-rt 6.1.158_rt58
  • linux66-rt 6.6.116_rt66
  • linux612-rt 6.12.57_rt14
  • linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (1/18/26 13:00 CET)

  • testing core x86_64: 101 new and 105 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 5383 new and 5485 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 34 new and 31 removed package(s)

List of changes can be found here

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  • Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)
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2025-12-29

NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and Maxwell support

With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) or Maxwell (GTX 9xx) GPUs

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal or Maxwell cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

Intervention required: Switch to a legacy driver to maintain support:
Install the official linuxXXX-nvidia-575xx, linuxXXX-nvidia-570xx, or related DKMS packages. You can use nvidia-driver-assistant to figure out which driver would support your hardware best.

2025-12-09

.NET packages may require manual intervention

2025-12-11 - George Rawlinson

The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0:

  • aspnet-runtime
  • aspnet-targeting-pack
  • dotnet-runtime
  • dotnet-sdk
  • dotnet-source-built-artifacts
  • dotnet-targeting-pack

pacman may display the following error failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) for the affected packages.

If you are affected by this and require the 9.0 packages, the following commands will update e.g. aspnet-runtime to aspnet-runtime-9.0:

pacman -Syu aspnet-runtime-9.0

pacman -Rs aspnet-runtime

Arch Linux - News: .NET packages may require manual intervention

2025-11-10

mkinitcpio v40 disabled fallback image creation for new installs

mkinitcpio v40, packaging changes and kernel-install - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org
This is only affects new installs as we can’t change the hook files on existing installs.

To disable fallback image creation on older installed systems

  • Change PRESETS=('default' 'fallback') line to PRESETS=('default') in the respective .preset files in /etc/mkinitcpio.d/.
  • Regenerate initramfs - sudo mkinitcpio -P
  • Update boot loader - sudo update-grub

Warning
Disabling all fallback initramfs generation will deprive you of another option to boot into the system in case a default initramfs fails. Before proceeding, make sure you have a bootable installation medium for rescue purposes on hand.

Previous testing threads:

6 posts were split to a new topic: Rhythmbox can’t load module python3loader

I just updated and my version of Gnome is still on 49.2, even though the release notes on this page said I should be updated to version 49.3 ?

Thanks for the help and assistance!

49.3 was a fairly minor update.

Review the list of updated modules and changes

:wink:

I’ve upgraded. Fine in general, thank you, but I’m holding back the apparmor package as that proved to be problematic for my set up. Just need to set some time aside to redo my apparmor profiles to make them compatible with this new version.

Actually, there is some advice I could do with. I’m finding that following this latest update, the kernel is defaulting to 6.12 LTS despite having a newer kernel installed. I’ve never experienced that behaviour before. Is there something I can do other than manually edit my grub entries?